Extending the Cure: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance (Rff Press) Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2007-05-17
Publisher: RFF Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1933115572
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Extending the Cure pdf
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Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and affordable antibiotics cannot be without changes to the incentives facing patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. In fact, increasing resistance to these drugs is already exacting a terrible price. Every day in the United States, approximately 172 men, women, and children die from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals alone. Beyond those deaths, antibiotic resistance is costing billions of dollars through prolonged hospital stays and the need for doctors to resort to ever more costly drugs to use as substitute treatments.Extending the Cure presents the problem of antibiotic resistance as a conflict between individual decision makers and their short-term interest and the interest of society as a whole, in both present and future: The effort that Download Extending the Cure for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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